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The COVINGTON NEWS
Official Organ of Newton County
and the City of Covington.
Published every Thursday by rhe
News Publishing Company.
W. E. LIGHTFOOT, Editor Mgr.
Entered as second class mail matter
December 2, 1908, at the Post Office
at Covington, Ga... under the act of
March 3, 1879,
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THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 1921.
Many men who sported in silk shirts
during the war would be glad to wear
overalls today.
A family of owls has taken up its
quarters upon the White House
grounds. Will Congress consult the
oracles?
Soviet Russia has 8,000,000 typhus
cases with a morality of from 40 to 50
per cent. This is some object lesson
in human folly.
Vmeriean burocracy has depopula¬
ted Alaska, and the thirty-eight gov¬
ernment bureaus, with conflicting jur
i.-,dictions will now have time to con¬
template the ruin they have wrought.
About 200,000 tons of American coal
wos shipped to Italy' in the month of
February. Italy is not a coal-produc¬
ing country, and big profits induced
shipments of coal that was needed at
home.
Tourists at the beaches are terribly
shocked at the brevity of the one-piece
bathing suits that the girls delight t<>
wear, yet they “stick around" and
watch the bathers, taking extreme de¬
light in the shocks. Human nature
is queer stuff anyway.
France and Eloyd George are near
ing a breach of goodfellowship. France
is the champion of the square deal in
Silesia, and she objects to giving to
Germany all the rich mining districts
in Silesia and permitting the Poles to
take what the Germans do not want.
Money in Russia has depreciated to
such an extent that a man who desires
to purchase a pair of bitts needs to
take his money to the store in a wheel¬
barrow. and even then he might need
to return for another load if he decid
ed to buy something higher in price
than the ordinary quality.
French newspapers reflect the senti¬
ment of disgust that pervades France
as a result of the bungling manipula¬
tions that have robbed the French na¬
tion of its rights and a square deal in
the European squable. France sees
Great Britain, as usual, the victor and
custodian of the spoils of war.
W. E. St. John, president of the
Oregon Growers' Co-operative Associa¬
tes placed an apple in a jar ten years
ago and covered it with liquid mix
Hire similar to that now being used
by bootleggers in the manufacture of
their product. Recently he removed
the apple and found it to be stone, or
something like it. This may be the
reason why certain individuals, after
having imbibed too freely, were said
to be “ossified'', meaning plain drunk,
otherwise, “dead to the world."
Within the next few weeks will oe
t tir the greatest imigration of a re¬
ligious sect since the Mormons fled
from Illinois to Utah. Between 15,000
and 20,000 Menonites with their live¬
stock, farm equipment and household
goods will leave Canada to take up
new location in western Durango,
Mexico. By this exodus, which is
prompted by the real or fancied per¬
secutions of the Canadian government.
Canada will lose a rich and industrious
people.
It is. estimated that there are
000 dope fiends m the .. United .. . „ States,
and that the habit is spreading. It .
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reported ... by police officers m of . the , larger
< dies that from 75 to 90 per cent, of
the major crimes are committed by
habitual users of cocaine. Other drugs
leave a trail of woe and crime. Pub¬
lic opinion is awakening to the menace
and drastic measures are to be taken
to stamp out the evil that is bringing
such large percentage of our young
men and women into lives of slavery
and suffering.
Italy has 400 inhabitants to the
Square mile. She is over-populated
and is seeking an outlet for her surp¬
lus. Now that Congress has closed
the door for fourteen months America
will not be the "Mecca” that she has
been in the past, and the 600.000 that
Italy plans to send out annually will
have to find some other destination
than the United States. Other over
populated sections of Europe are in
the same claeiflcation. America will
have a rest and the time to reeuper
ate from the overwhelming tide that
has deluged the land for the past quar
ter of a century.
The American government will take
no steps toward recognizing Soviet
Russia as long as an American is held
a prisoner there. In any event it
does not seem proper to reeonize
a government that is administered
by outlaws, whatever conditions
may prevail.
There is an over-produciori of sugar,
and the beet sugar industry in curtail¬
ing its output. The sugar barons
had their day and their afternoon, and
now it is time the people of the United
States had an opportunity to do busi¬
ness on the square. There has been
no real shortage of sugar. The refin¬
ers and the big wholesalers admit this
to be a fact; yet they were glad to
take the rake-off under the protection
of the Federal government.
The abandonment of militarism
seems to be a long ways off, when
we contemplate the vast military and
naval preparations of the nations of
the world. Here in the United Slates
militarism has a firm hold, and only
last week the national House Military
committee reported favorably upon the
passage of a bill authorizing the pur¬
chase of real estate, valued at more
than $4,000,000, for army supply bas¬
es in various sections of the country.
The land in each case was requisition¬
ed by the government prior to July
1919.
The chief offender against the return
of prosperity for the laboring man >s
the landlord. He seems to be totally
ignorant of the fact that the war is
over, and continues to hold his rents
as high as ever. Living costs must
be reduced to meet new conditions,
and as the rent is the most important
item of expense for any family, they
naturally look for a reduction in the
rent that will compare favorably with
the decline of other prices. Until
landlords' hearts are softened no basis
of national prosperity can be establish
ed.
JAMESTOWN ISLAND
Jamestown Island, containing about
1600 acres, and the site of first En¬
glish settlement in America, may he
purchased by the government and
made into a National Park. The prop¬
erty is now owned by Mrs. Edward E.
Barney.
Jamestown was settled by the En¬
glish on May 13. 1607. when one hun¬
dred settlers from England under the
direction of Captain John Smith, the
hero of the Pocahontas story.
Virginia at the time extended from
■Jamestown 20 0 miles north and south
from Jamestown and to the Missippi,
It was at James City, a few miles in¬
land from Jamestown, that the first
legislative body in America met in 1619.
In August of that year a Dutch Man
of-war touched at Jamestown and sold
twenty African negroes, thus introduc¬
ing African slavery into America.
GERMAN INDEMNITY.
The German indemnity is to be di¬
vided into seven parcels. France will
receive 52 per cent, of the indemnity,
amounting to $17,550,000,000; Great
Britain will get 22 per cent., amount
ing to $7,00,000,000; Belgium will re¬
ceive 8 pei cent., or $2,700,000,000; It¬
aly, 10 per cent., or $3,375,000,000; Ja¬
pan will get three-fourths per cent.,
or $253,125,000; Portugal will get three
fourths per cent., or $253,125,000, and
Servia, Raumania and Greece will di¬
vide up 6 per cent., or $2,193,750.
In addition to the payment of the
indemnity Germany is bound to dis¬
band her army; something that she
has not yet done, and an idea of Us
strength may be gained from the fact
that it put down a Bolshevist uprising
in one week.
The total idemnity that Germany
will be required to pay will amount
to $33,750,000,000, to be paid in install
of $485,000,000 per year, togeth
I er with 25 pPrCent ° f the Value of
J her exports.
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i SPIRIT OF BASEBALL.
The brooklet of people fancy never
isang with more wholesome melodj
that which flows through the
hearts hearts nf of one whnsp whose nature nature PYnnnrla expands
with love for good, clean sport like
baseball, when it is played in the right
spirit.
Pure athletics is a diversion which
strengthens the soul. Without that
element of l )Urit > T which K»ves strength
and vigor to the soul, athletics is not
athletics in the true sense. Athletics
in the true sense is an art of uplift to
finer faculties, sense and talents of peo¬
ple with ideals. A real artist, after the
diversion of clean athletics, can paint
a better picture; a preacher can deliver
a more powerful appeal to the sinner;
a carpenter can make swifter progress
in building a house; a merchant or
banker can inject greater efficiency in¬
to his business; a house-wife can make
a happier home. These things are
true if those people have any appreci¬
ation for baseball—and more American
people love baseball than there arc
Americans who love any other sport.
Americans are red-blooded, and base¬
ball is a red-blooded game, full of life,
exertion, thrills.—LaGrange Reporter,
THE COVINGTON NEWS. COVINGTON, GEORGIA
MANNERS IN THE SCHOOL,
In New York city is a schoolma’arn
who preposed to start a department
of manners in her school. Her ability
to carry out her purpose will of course
depend upon those who are “higher
up.”
This particular educator and social
reformer is convinced that manners
should be made a part of the school
curriculum. She has observed certain
defects in the deportment of some of
the boys and girls with whom she has
come in contact. These faults have
manifestly not been corrected at home.
If they are to be corrected at all, she
reasons, the school is the place and
the study hours are the time.
Her description of some notable
shortcomings of the young people
whom she has been observing may thus
be summarized:
They are too much in the habit of
interrupting conversation.
They lack deference to their elders,
When seated in a room they do not
rise at entrance of grown people.
Lads lading in ihe subway or the sur¬
face cars do not give their seats to
standing women.
They are careless in their speech,
even when they know better.
Their table manners are often atro¬
cious. Having noticed their failings
in this respect in the lunchroom, the
teacher says she often feels like pass¬
ing around cards inscribed: “Why not
close your mouth while eating?” or
“Lift the food to your mouth—don't
lower your face to the plate,” or
“Eat your lunch—don't assault it.”
These are but samples of the me¬
tropolitan teacher’s complaint. The
juvenile faults which she is ambitious
to remedy are by no means confined
to New York. We shall not pretend
to say how serious is the need for sim¬
ilar instructions in the Herald’s parish.
But most people will agree with her
estimate of good manners ns an asset
to the growing hoy or girl.
If manners ever becomes an estab¬
lished feature of the public school cur¬
riculum, we shall have some novel
and valuable tests of successful school
training. In that event, we should
forgive much to the lad who had pass¬
ed at 100 in the examination in man¬
ners and who had fallen somewhat be¬
hind in geography and algebra. In af¬
ter years, a pupil backward in arith¬
metic, history and the like can catch
up, but it is next to impossible for ,i
schoolboy who starts wrong to catch
up on deportment.
A good-mannered boy or girl is a joy
forever. The New York schoolma’am
who is ambitious to see the school in
crease their output of graduates of
that kind seems to be a public servant
of the right srt.—Selected.
NO REASON FOR IT
When Covington Citizens Show a
Way,
There can be no reason why any
reader of this who suffers the tor
tures of aa aching back, the annoy
ance of urinary disorders, the pain
and dang rs of kidney ills will tai.
to heed the words of a neighbor who
has found relief. Read what a Cov¬
ington ci'.izen says:
Mrs J, L Ramsay, Butler St,, says;
"A good many years ago i was trou
bled a great deal with pains in my
back. I had headaches and was oft¬
en nervous. My kidneys didn’t aci
as they should either. As Doans
Kidney Pills had been used in m*
family for years I began taking them
and they soon relieved nte of all this
trouble.” »
60c, at all dealers. Foster-Milburn
Co Mfrs. Buffalo, N. Y
INDIGESTION
Thedford’s Black-Draught Highly
Recommended by a Tennessee
Grocer lor Troubles Re¬
sulting from Torpid
Liver,
East Nashville, Tenn.— The effic¬
iency of Thedford's Black-Draught, the
genuine, herb, liver medicine, is
vouched for by Mr. W. N. Parsons, a
grocer of this city. “It is without
doubt the best liver medicine, and I
don’t believe I could get along without
It I take it for sour stomach, head¬
ache, bad liver, Indigestion, and all
other troubles that are the result of
a torpid liver.
“I have known and used it for years,
and can and do highly recommend it
to every one. I won’t go to bed with¬
out it in the house. It will do ail it
claims to do. I can’t say enough for
It”
Many other men and women through¬
out the country have found Black
Draught Just as Mr Parsons describes
—valuable In regulating the liver to
Us normal functions, and in cleansing
the bowels of impurities.
Thedford’s Black-Draught liver medi¬
cine is the original and only genuine.
Accept no Imitations or substitutes.
Always ask lor Thedford’s, g #
M.,-^Intruder
T7IRE, 1 the intruder, demands
A attention when you are
planning buildings, just as he
does when destroying property
and interrupting business.
Your best defense is Hartford
Fire Insurance and the service
of the Hartford’s Fire Preven¬
tion Engineers.
Get this complete protection
—because you need it. Ask
this agency for it.
INSURE PROMPTLY BECAUSE
F1RE ALWAYS THREATENS—AND
INSURE THROUGH THIS AGENCY.
W. K. LUNSFORD
Telephone 70, Bank of Covington,
COVINGTON, GA.
WHAT IS A WOMAN?
For a paintex'—a model.
For a doctor—a subject.
For a peasant—a housekeeper.
For a Parisian—a dowry.
For an Albanian—a beast of burden.
For a Roman—a citizeness.
For a school boy—an angel.
For an honest man—a companion.
SCHOOI DAYS ARE OVER
School days are over!
Now for the clover,
Butterflies, birds and bees
Under the shady trees.
Loosed, from bonds totelai-y.
Out we go, wild and merry.
Heart, brain and hand
Naught but a roving band.
School days are over!
—YEAGER.
According to figures complied by
commercial agencies 84 per cent
the failures in the United States, in
DODGE BROTHERS
Announce a Substantial
Reduction In The Price Of
Their Cars Effective
JUNE EIGHTH
Weaver & Pittman
Covington, Georgia
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS
DIVORCE NOTICE
L. W. HODGES vs. EMMA HODGES.
In the Newton Superior Court
March Term, 1921.
To the Defendant Emma Hodges:
The plaintiff, L. W. Hodges, having
filed his petition for divorce against
Emma Hodges, in this Court, returna¬
ble to this term of the Court, and it
being made to appear that Emma Hod¬
ges is not a resident of this county and
also that she does not reside within the
State, and an order having been made
! for service on her by publication, this
therefore is to notify you, Emma Hod¬
ges, to be and appear at the next term
of the Newton Superior Court to be
held on tiie third Monday in July,, 1921,
then and there to answer said com¬
plaint.
Witness the honorable John B. Hut¬
cheson, Judge of the Superior Court,
Stone Mountain Circuit.
This 4th day of May, 1921.
C. O. NIXON, Clerk,
Administrator’s Sale.
GEORGIA—Newton County.
All creditors of the estate oL’ Mrs. N.
i C- McClendon, of Jasper County, de
ceased are hereby notified to rendei'
tMr demands to the undersigned ac
j I cording to law, and all persons indebt
^immediate ed to said estate are required to make
payment to us, May 22, 1921.
1 J. H. and J. C. McClendon, ad¬
ministrators of Mrs. N. C. Mc¬
Clendon, deceased. 25-23.
CITATION
GEORGIA, Newton County.
To ah whom it may concern;
J. M. Maloy of said state, having in
proper form, applied for permanent
Letters of administration on the estate
of Iverson W. Crowell, late of said
county, deceased, this is to cite all and
singular the creditors and next of kin
of Iverson W. Crowell deceased, to be
and appear at the Court of Ordinary
of said county, at the July Term, 1921,
and show cause, if any they can, why
permanent Letters of Administration
should not be granted to said J. M.
Maloy on said estate.
Witness my official signature, this
; 9th day of May, 1921,
25-29c A. L. LOYD, Ordinary.
the year 1920 were non-advertisers.
Advertisers may and do sometimes
fail; but the percentage of failures
among advertisers is small compared
with those who do not advertise.
CITATION
GEORGIA—Newton County.
To all Whom it May Concern.
Miss Nancy E. Morgan of said
having, in f Stat J'
proper orm applied f or
ters of administration on the
of Elizabeth F. estat !
Morgan late of saj
county, deceased, this is to cite all
singular the ki!i a i
creditors and next
to be and appear at the Court of
nary of said county 0i% ,J
at the J ui y te(
1921 and show cause, if any they ’
why adminis,^' ca
permanent letters of
tion should not be granted to
Nancy E. Moi'gan Said
on said estate.
Witness my official signature, this
7th day of June, 1921.
27-30 A. L. LOYD, Ordinary,
NOTICE TO BRIDGE '
CON TRACTORS,
All parties interested in contracting
to rebuild bridge, at Island Shoals
over to look South over river the work are hereby advkS uZ
submit to be done
to sealed bids to Board if
County Commissioners of Newton
county or to the County Commission
er of Henry county on or before Juiv
the first 1921. The specifications for
the bridge are roughly, as follows
Raise abutment at each end 3 f eet '
Raise abutment in center 8 feet Get
one half of bridge out of river, one
hundred feet span, put in good con
dition, and in proper place. In fact
complete the bridge. Countv to Pu¬
nish all material, including cemem
floor, and etc. For further informs
tion see or write Dan Upshaw, Cor
ington, Ga., or Milt Walker, McDon¬
ough, Ga. The County Commissioners
of Newton and Henry counties reserve
the right to receive or reject any or
all bids. 27-30.
DIVORCE NOTICE
TOM VV. SMITH vs. OPHELIA SMITH
In Newton Superior Court,
July Term, 1921.
Libel for Total Divorce.
To Ophelia Smith;
In pursuance of an order to perfect
service on you by publication in the
above stated case, the same being a
‘
i ibe i tor total divorce, you are hereby
required, personally or by attorney, to
be and appear at the July term, 1921,
of Newton Superior Court to be held in
and for said county on the 3rd Mon
day in July next, then and there to
answer the plaintiff’s complaint, as in
default thereof said court will pro
ceed, as to justice shall appertain.
Witness the Honorable John B. Hut¬
cheson, Judge of the said court, this
2nd day of May, 1921.
C. O. NINON,
Clerk of Newton Superior Court,
22-27
